Quotes by category:Agents

No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.

Jason Mewes

agents

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.

Jason Schwartzman

headshots agents band

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Jasper Fforde

agents want writing

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

Jean Giraudoux

pimp agents giving

Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent.

Jean Baudrillard

viruses agents shadow

Some of my best friends are FBI agents.

Jeff Sessions

fbi-agents agents my-best-friend

As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

Jeff Sessions

agents important mind

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

Jena Malone

agents want

When I first got an agent, they gave me some advice--lose weight.

Jennifer Aniston

agents weight advice

What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

Jenny Eclair

agents internet want

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

Jenny Holzer

agents numb desire

My agent called me at 5:30am, and I thought the set of my movie had burned down, or Josh [Hutcherson] had died, or something…I didn’t realize! I was so tired!

Jennifer Lawrence

agents realizing tired

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

Jerome Bruner

agents self needs

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

Jessica Alba

agents directors kids

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

Jim Butcher

agents pain fire

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

Jimmi Simpson

community-theatre agents new-york

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

agents scripts thinking

This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.

Jimmy Fallon

agents administration secret

I never refused autograph seekers, unless they were old enough to look like collection agents.

Joe Pepitone

agents enough looks